Migration & Schengen

The EU’s migration and security woes have boosted populism and nativism across the bloc. Member-states have re-instated national borders, leaders refuse to take asylum seekers in and the EU is reconsidering the Schengen agreement. If left unsolved, the migration and Schengen crises could eventually deal a fatal blow to the European project itself.

The British government is likely to let all EU migrants who arrive before the date of Brexit stay in the country. Other options may be politically attractive, but are impractical, of dubious legality, or against British interests.